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PhD Research Showcase

The Computer Science PhD Research Showcase is an annual departmental event to showcase the research of our PhD students, who have the opportunity to demonstrate their research, receive feedback, and exchange information. The departmental objectives are the following:

  1. to improve the student’sresearch communication skills,
  2. to provide to feedback related to the students’ research progress and presentation of their ideas and results,
  3. to encourage scientific exchange of ideas between students and faculty working in different areas, and
  4. to promote internal community developmentby getting to know faculty and peers.

PhD Research Showcase
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
10 AM - 1 PM
Elizabeth D. Rockwell Pavilion, UH M.D. Anderson Library

Schedule (tentative)

  • 10:00 AM: Welcome & Introductions
  • 10: 05 AM: Lightning Talks
  • 10:20 AM: Poster Session A
  • 11:20 AM: Poster Session B
  • 12:30 PM: Closing & Awards

Participating Students

  • TBA

Awards

Participants will be considered for the following awards:

  1. Best Poster
  2. Honorable Mention
  3. People's Choice
  4. People's Choice Runner-Up

For Fall 2025, all CS PhD students who have passed the PhD RCE exam or have started their third year and beyond are expected to participate.

Expectations and Timeline:

  1. Register by Friday, September 19, 2025.
  2. Registered students will be added to PhD Showcase course in Canvas
  3. Submit draft poster via Canvas course by Sunday, October 5, 2025.
  4. Attend Faculty Office Hours on Wednesday, October 15, 2025, 1PM-3PM, PGH 563. This will be to receive in-person feedback on your poster.
  5. Submit a final poster via Canvas for printing by Wednesday, October 29, 2025.
  6. Present on Wednesday, November 5, 2025.

Dates and times subject to change. Updates will be announced in Canvas for those who register.

Fall 2024

  • Judge's Choice Best Poster: Thomas Carroll - Work-In-Progress: Using Interaction Between Vehicles to Reduce Deadline Tardiness from a Route Assignment Perspective
  • Judge's Choice Best Poster: Michael Yantosca - ARTIC/Phonotomizer: An Adaptive, Real-Time Pipeline for Unsupervised, Multilingual Phonetic Segmentation
  • People's Choice Best Poster: Meng-Chen (Martin) Lee - DialogueDiffu: Dyadic Conversational Co-Speech Gesture Synthesis

Spring 2024

  • Judge's Choice Best Poster: Robert Griffin - Designing Mobile MRI Scanners: Mass Efficiency of Halbach Ring Design Parameters
  • Judge's Choice Best Poster: Meng Chen (Martin) Lee - Online Multimodal End-of-Turn Prediction for Three-party Conversations
  • People's Choice Best Poster: Vuong (Dustin) Nguyen - Contrastive Viewpoint-aware Shape Learning for Long-term Person Re-Identification

Spring 2023

  • Judge's Choice Best Poster: Urmila Sampathkumar - Statistical Shape Models for Outcome Simulation in Breast Surgeries
  • People's Choice Best Poster: Urmila Sampathkumar - Statistical Shape Models for Outcome Simulation in Breast Surgeries

 

Spring 2024

Spring 2023

Organizing Committee

Dr. Guoning Chen, chair (gchen22@central.uh.edu)